Paddy Hughes
agent: Natalie Spanier - natalie@sternwild.com
Paddy Hughes is a BAFTA-nominated Series Director, Executive Producer and creative, with a proven record of steering pilots into series commissions, particularly for BBC3.
Specialising in Factual Entertainment, Comedy and Documentary, he has consistently straddled television and digital programming and has built a CV that covers the terrestrial broadcasters, digital, SVOD, brand films and scripted content.
He always makes contributors and talent feel at ease, and then enjoys crafting films with sensitivity, emotion, humour and heart. He is also skilled at treatment creation - writing, drawing storyboards and collecting imagery that can guide commissioners through the development/pre-production process, and end up in the finished film or series.
His documentary experience has seen him film plastic surgery addicts across the globe for Channel 4’s Plastic & Proud, and manage teams filming internationally for sport science series Building the Player. He filmed and directed the successful VICE series The Munchie’s Guide to Sweden and went behind the scenes at Disneyland Paris for Making the Magic on Channel 5/Disney.
In Factual Entertainment he has directed and produced the first series of Eating with my Ex, Flat Out Fabulous, Hungry for It and Made Up in Belfast for BBC3, and Make Yourself at Home for Discovery+.
He has produced and directed comedy stunt action for Channel 4’s Hillbilly Nation and Executive Produced and Directed the dual language comedy chat and sketch show Tonight with Omid, which was broadcast in both English and Farsi for the BBC/BBC Persia.
In the branded and commercial space, he has served as an Executive Producer/Commissioner across a range of long and short form content at Red Bull Music and directed commercial campaigns for brands such as NatWest, Prime Video, Virgin Media and Cadbury’s.
He's worked with the likes of Gordon Ramsay, James May, Jessica Hynes, Omid Djalili, Stacey Dooley and Big Zuu. Plus, digital influencers such as Yung Filly, Harry Pinero and GKBarry.
He likes to lead with a smile and is just as happy directing multi-camera crew with an A-lister, as he is developing a project with a digital star. He understands how to work with TV commissioners, creative agencies/clients and digital platforms. In the changing face of the media landscape, he’s always interested in the new, the untested and the eccentric.